print text on picturebox

how can I print text onto a picturebox so that the text fits within the picturebox width. the picture box width will vary so the text size must as well.

been stuck on this for way too long and am in need of any advice!!

Here is one solution. It's as blinky as a label, but if you're gonna BitBlt something on the form instead of doing the backcolor changing thing, then you'll have something working.

VB Code:

Option Explicit
Private Sub Form_Resize()
    Picture1.Move 0, 0, ScaleWidth, ScaleHeight
End Sub
Private Sub Picture1_Resize()
    Dim A As Long, B As Long, Temp As String
    Picture1.CurrentY = 0
    Picture1.BackColor = Picture1.BackColor
    Temp = "Mary has a little lamb which is a very white and small and eats all the grass it can see"
    Do Until Temp = ""
        A = InStr(B + 1, Temp, Chr(32))
        If A < 1 Then Picture1.Print Temp: Exit Do
        If Picture1.TextWidth(Left$(Temp, A - 1)) > Picture1.ScaleWidth Then
            If B < 1 Then
                Picture1.Print Temp: Exit Do
            Else
                Picture1.Print Left$(Temp, B - 1)
                Temp = Mid$(Temp, B + 1)
                B = 0
            End If
        Else
            B = A
        End If
        DoEvents
    Loop
End Sub

And if you want to center the text:
(note! this code is unoptimized! it's possible to speed up this code a bit...)

VB Code:

Option Explicit
Private Sub Form_Resize()
    Picture1.Move 0, 0, ScaleWidth, ScaleHeight
End Sub
Private Sub Picture1_Resize()
    Dim A As Long, B As Long, Temp As String
    Picture1.CurrentY = 0
    Picture1.BackColor = Picture1.BackColor
    Temp = "Mary has a little lamb which is a very white and small and eats all the grass it can see"
    Do Until Temp = ""
        A = InStr(B + 1, Temp, Chr(32))
        If A < 1 Then Picture1.CurrentX = (Picture1.ScaleWidth - Picture1.TextWidth(Temp)) / 2: Picture1.Print Temp: Exit Do
        If Picture1.TextWidth(Left$(Temp, A - 1)) > Picture1.ScaleWidth Then
            If B < 1 Then
                Picture1.CurrentX = (Picture1.ScaleWidth - Picture1.TextWidth(Temp)) / 2
                Picture1.Print Temp: Exit Do
            Else
                Picture1.CurrentX = (Picture1.ScaleWidth - Picture1.TextWidth(Left$(Temp, B - 1))) / 2
                Picture1.Print Left$(Temp, B - 1)
                Temp = Mid$(Temp, B + 1)
                B = 0
            End If
        Else
            B = A
        End If
        DoEvents
    Loop
End Sub

I guess changing that code that it does right alignment isn't too hard :rolleyes:

And one that doesn't blink!

- Make a new project
- Include two pictureboxes
- Picture1.AutoRedraw = True
- Picture1. Visible = False
- Change fontsize, colors etc.
- Include the code and run!

VB Code:

Option Explicit
Private Declare Function BitBlt Lib "gdi32" (ByVal hDestDC As Long, ByVal x As Long, ByVal y As Long, ByVal nWidth As Long, ByVal nHeight As Long, ByVal hSrcDC As Long, ByVal xSrc As Long, ByVal ySrc As Long, ByVal dwRop As Long) As Long
Private Sub Form_Resize()
    Picture2.Move 0, 0, ScaleWidth, ScaleHeight
    Picture1.Move 0, 0, ScaleWidth, ScaleHeight
End Sub
Private Sub Picture1_Resize()
    Dim A As Long, B As Long, Temp As String
    Picture1.CurrentY = 0
    Picture1.BackColor = Picture1.BackColor
    Temp = "Mary has a little lamb which is a very white and small and eats all the grass it can see "
    Do Until Temp = ""
        A = InStr(B + 1, Temp, Chr(32))
        If A < 1 Then Picture1.CurrentX = (Picture1.ScaleWidth - Picture1.TextWidth(Temp)) / 2: Picture1.Print Temp: Exit Do
        If Picture1.TextWidth(Left$(Temp, A - 1)) > Picture1.ScaleWidth Then
            If B < 1 Then
                Temp = Trim$(Temp)
                Picture1.CurrentX = (Picture1.ScaleWidth - Picture1.TextWidth(Temp)) / 2
                Picture1.Print Temp: Exit Do
            Else
                Picture1.CurrentX = (Picture1.ScaleWidth - Picture1.TextWidth(Left$(Temp, B - 1))) / 2
                Picture1.Print Left$(Temp, B - 1)
                Temp = Mid$(Temp, B + 1)
                B = 0
            End If
        Else
            B = A
        End If
        DoEvents
    Loop
    BitBlt Picture2.hDC, 0, 0, Picture2.ScaleX(Picture2.ScaleWidth, Picture2.ScaleMode, vbPixels), Picture2.ScaleY(Picture2.ScaleHeight, Picture2.ScaleMode, vbPixels), Picture1.hDC, 0, 0, vbSrcCopy
End Sub